BIC: Phoenix stood in the lucid forest, his figure at home amongst the fantastic flora that called this domain, home. He noticed that the amazing creatures who inhabited this place were no where to be found. Worry began to creep into his thoughts. Then he felt an unusual precense in the forest. Something that wasn't welcome. The king of the dreamworld had to protect his kingdom.

From behind a blue leafed tree stepped an older man. He wore a plain black t-shirt that clung tightly to his muscular frame. Simple jeans and sneakers were worn on his legs and feet for easy maneuverability.

"Your name is all over the bingo books, Phoenix," the man sneered. "It's hard as hell to find a canary such as yourself when you're hiding. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joe, and I will be taking your life today."

With that, the man called Joe reached into his pockets and drew two trench knives.

"Sir, you are not welcome here, I will now ask you once more to leave." Phoenix began focusing his energy and snapped his fingers. A small bulb of fire began to slowly circle him. If this intruder wasn't going to leave of his own accord Phoenix would just have to make him. Phoenix created two more small wisps of fire that lazily circled his body.

He ran at Phoenix, putting each of the orbs of fire into a vacuum, extinguishing them. When he reached his opponent, an upward slice was sent upwards with his right hand at Phoenix's chest and stomach.

Phoenix easily avoided the attack by stepping backwards. Now Joe's body was in a very vulnerable spot. His hand was fully extended and his entire side was left open. Phoenix sent a kick to Joe's exposed ribs. The odds of avoiding were nigh as Joe was too close to move and wouldn't be expecting such a simple yet effective attack. If the kick landed Joe wouldn't have any broken bones but there was enough power there to send him a good distance away. Phoenix, continued charging his energy.

Joe continued running forward and into Phoenix. With his leg in the air, he would be extremely off balance and most likely fall to the ground. If he did, Joe would raise a single spike upwards from the ground, letting Phoenix impale himself due to simple physics.

Phoenix's opponent's move was strange, a very fool hardy plan. Joe's shoulder ran into Phoenix but his kick was still moving. Phoenix merely bent his leg at the knee to compensate for the distance. Using Joe's own momentum Phoenix grabbed Joe's shoulders and pushed himself over his opponent, basically he pushed Joe's head underneath his armpit and lowered himself down on the other side of Joe. Now with their backs facing one another and Phoenix turned and sent a right hook towards the back of Joe's head.

The hook smashed into the back of Joe's head, the man having no visibility of the attack. But, a punch is a punch. Phoenix would have to do much better than that of he expected to kill him.

Joe smiled despite his vision blurring and spun around. As he did so, he willed two spikes of earth to erupt from below Phoenix's feet. They would pierce his feet, leaving the man greatly hindered on foot.

Phoenix felt the earth protruding into his sneakers, he lifted himself using his wings. Phoenix then let out a breath of thick ash that surrounded Joe. With his opponent's vision undoubtably hindered Phoenix flew high into the sky. Phoenix could sense Joe's precense within the ash. He began to charge his energy for an attack.

Phoenix pulled the ash upwards along with Joe, he focused on hardening only a few pieces of ash into coal and kept them hidden in the cloud of ash. Phoenix then lifted his hand and sent a cone of holy fire rushing at Joe. The attack would force him into the cloud of ash which was behind him. A lethal place if Joe wasn't careful.

As the ash rushed back towards Joe, he formed a dome of air around himself, making sure the ash didn't touch him.

Therefore, when Phoenix pulled the ash upwards, his fire lit the ash and coal aflame. Using the flame as a shield, because neither combatant could see through it, Joe quickly launched himself into the nearest tree, completely out of sight from his opponent.

The heat from Phoenix's flames turned the bits of coal into diamonds. As Joe leapt off into places unseen Phoenix flew higher into the sky, the tiny bits of diamonds began to fall. He scanned the forest and began charging his energy, he held his hand out and summoned his blade. Then he summoned an orb of holy fire into his hands. Still charging his energy Phoenix began to turn the ball into white hot light.

Phoenix was a fire-based attacker, suitable to his name. Fire was a very versatile element. It is able to be manipulated in various ways, some much stronger then the original itself. But it needed one thing to survive.

Oxygen.

Phoenix's wings were somewhat of a solid, but composed completely of fire. Right now, the man was relying on those wings to keep him from plummeting to the ground. Joe had a different story in mind.

He stopped charging his energy after this new plan arose, but instead focused on the back of Phoenix--right at his shoulder blades. The shoulder blades were where the fiery wings erupted from Phoenix, and they were most certainly the strongest part. However, they were thinner than the rest, and it was the connecting point between the beast and the wings.

Very quickly, Joe formed two vacuums large enough to engulf the entire connecting point of each wing with room to spare. The man would surely fall to the ground, so Joe made sure to keep these vacuums trained on these spots. Because of this, Joe would have considerably less control over the air than he normally did, but his earth skills would be unhindered.

Phoenix began to fall as his wings gave out. This old man knew what he was doing, Phoenix concentrated on pushing holy fire out from the bases of his feet downwards, allowing him to remain in flight. The orb of light had finished forming in his hand so Phoenix sent it towards the forest where Joe was hiding, when the orb was in the trees Phoenix forced it to explode unleashing a fast moving wild fire. Phoenix then pulled more ash from around him, he pressed the ash to his back and using a thick layer of it smothered the vaccum upon his back.

Phoenix allowed his wings to burst free, their warm glow showing again. Scanning the forest Phoenix saw Joe approaching. Phoenix charged holy fire to his hands as Joe approached. Watching Joe near, Phoenix raised his hands and fired two pillars of fie from his hands at Joe. The fire came to a point so if it hit the dome the possibility of it piercing it was high, and the heat alone would burn Joe's flesh.

Joe allowed the dome to slip around him, rocketing forward by itself into the fierce Holy Fire. Joe remained back a bit, but the dome charged forward, invisible in the flames. Not only did this stop the flames from reaching Joe, but it would serve as an offensive attack.

Joe readied himself for Phoenix's undoubted counter attack, ready to act in an instant.